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Mallory, Stephen Russell
Mallory, Stephen Russell (1813–73) secretary of the navy of the Confederate States of America, born in Trinidad. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Mallory was faced with the challenge of constructing a navy virtually from scratch. Among his successes was the use of commerce raiders to harass and destroy Union shipping. Most notably, Mallory believed in the ability of ironclads to break the Union blockade. He ordered the conversion of the USS Merrimack into the ironclad CSS Virginia. Its subsequent encounter with the USS Monitor at the battle of Hampton Roads (1862), though inconclusive in terms of the immediate conflict, transformed the face of naval warfare.
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"Mallory, Stephen Russell." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Mallory, Stephen Russell." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-MalloryStephenRussell.html "Mallory, Stephen Russell." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-MalloryStephenRussell.html |
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